Representation of Love in Andrić’s Novel The Bridge on the Drina Cover Image

Prikazi ljubavi u Andrićevu romanu Na Drini ćuprija
Representation of Love in Andrić’s Novel The Bridge on the Drina

Author(s): Bernarda Katušić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Fromm; Luhmann; Andrić; The Bridge on the Drina; modern love

Summary/Abstract: Starting with Erich Fromm’s thesis on love from his seminal work The Art of Loving(1956), the paper tries to show the way in which Fromm’s psycho-biological concept of love is represented differently in different historical formations in Andrić’s historical novel The Bridge on the Drina(1945). A brief analysis of the three love relations from Andrić’s novel reveals the process of the appearance of the concept of modern love, the moment in which love ceases to be a social instance and becomes an individual act.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 275-286
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian